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5. Lychnis Drammondi (Hook.) 
S. Wats. Drummond’s Pink. 
(Fig. 1459.) 
Silene Drummondi Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 89. 
1830. 
Lychnis Drummondi S. Wats. Bot. King’s Exp. 37. 
1871. 
Erect from a perennial root, simple or spar- 
ingly branched, finely glandular-pubescent 
and viscid, 1°-3° high. Leaves oblanceolate 
or linear, acute, narrowed into a margined peti- 
ole or the upper sessile, 1/-314’ long; flowers 
few, slender-pedicelled, white or purplish, 6’/— 
10’ long; petals scarcely longer than the tu- 
bular calyx, entire or emarginate at the apex, 
narrower than the auricled claw; capsule ob- 
long-cylindric, 6’’-8’” long; seeds tuberculate. 
In dry soil, Nebraska to Manitoba, west to Cali- 
fornia and Oregon. June-July. 
6. Lychnis apétala L. Nodding Lychnis. 
(Fig. 1460. ) 
Lychnis apetala W. Sp. Pl. 437. 1753. 
Tufted, arctic or alpine, perennial, 3/-S’ high, 
glandular-pubescent at least above. Stems 1-flow- 
ered; leaves linear or oblanceolate, %/-2'4’ long, 
1/’-3/’ wide, sessile, or the lower narrowed into a 
petiole; flower nodding, 6’’-8’’ long; petals narrow, 
2-cleft, included in the calyx; calyx inflated, strongly 
purple-veined, its teeth triangular-ovate, acute; petals 
narrow, about 1’’ wide, minutely appendaged, equal- 
ling or shorter than the calyx, deeply 2-cleft; cap- 
sule erect, ovoid, 4’’ in diameter. 
Labrador and throughout aretic America, Also in arc- 
tic and alpine Europe and Asia. Summer. 
7. Lychnis affinis Vahl. Arctic Lychnis. 
(Fig. 1461.) 
Lychnis affinis Vahl, in Fries, Mant. 3:36. 1843. 
Tufted, arctic, perennial, erect, 2’-4’ high, glandular-pubes- 
centthroughout. Basal leaves spatulate, obtuse, about 14’ long, 
ciliate; stem-leaves linear, %’-1’ long, obtuse, sessile, or nar- 
rowed into a short broad petiole; flower erect, 4’’-6’’ long; calyx 
oblong or ovate-campanulate, slightly inflated, its teeth short, 
acute; petals somewhat exserted, the blade narrowed below, 
emarginate and eroded, the appendages minute. 
Labrador and arctic America and Europe. Summer. 
